This week, ABC15 is following up on reporting from Yuma during our 48 Hours on the Border series, which aired in March 2024. As much of the border sees historically low numbers of illegal crossings, we wanted to follow up with groups like the Regional Center for Border Health, which operated a transition center for four years for asylum-seekers that had just been processed by the U.S. Border Patrol. The idea was to prevent street releases, which some other cities along the border experienced over the past few years. Now that their transition center is no longer needed due to much lower border crossings, the RCBH is focusing on new projects, like building a new hospital; they broke ground in January.

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